President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don't would not amount to a backhanded tax increase. "I absolutely reject that notion," the president said.I've heard a lot of people erroneously compare the mandates for insurance in Obamacare to the requirements by various states to buy auto insurance, claiming there's no difference. There is a big difference - if you don't own a car you don't have to buy insurance anyway or pay a fine for not having it.
Blanketing most of the Sunday TV news shows, Obama defended his proposed health care overhaul, including a key point of the various health care bills on Capitol Hill: mandating that people get health insurance to share the cost burden fairly among all. Those who failed to get coverage would face financial penalties.
Obama said other elements of the plan would make insurance affordable for people, from a new comparison-shopping "exchange" to tax credits.
Telling people to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase, Obama told ABC's "This Week."
Obamacare will require everyone to have insurance, and if not provided by an employer, the individual must purchase it or pay big fines to the government. When the government mandates spending by taxpayers, it's a tax, like it or not. Trying to couch it in confusing language does not make it less so.
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I guess he's right if you accept the government as the ultimate authority of we must do as individuals... as the arbiter of our personal actions and morality. But for those with sense enough to reject his thinking, there are only two words, "He's wrong!"
Larry: Or you could say to the POTUS, "you lie!"....
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